Broadwell, Kelley visited White House

11/16/12 1:38 PM EST

Both women at the heart of the Petraeus scandal have visited the White House on multiple occasions, a White House official confirmed to POLITICO.

Petraeus’s biographer Paula Broadwell attended an Afghanistan briefing, while Tampa socialite Jill Kelley visited three times in recent months, twice to dine with an unnamed White House staffer.

“Jill Kelley visited the White House complex three times, once for a tour with her family and children and twice for courtesy meals at the White House mess with her sister and a White House staffer who met the Kelley family while visiting MacDill Air Force Base,” the official said.

She had breakfast at the staff dining hall on September 28 and again on October 24. She took the tour on Sunday, Nov. 4 -- just five days before former Gen. David Petraeus resigned.

Kelley was joined on the tour by her husband, sister, sister's child, and three children.

Broadwell met in June 2009 with a national security staff member who handles Afghanistan and Pakistan policy, the official said. She also attended a briefing with 20 other people in June 2011 on policy in the region.

White House employees are allowed to bring guests to eat with them in the dining hall. The names of those guests – and the employees who brought them -- then appear on White House visitor logs, which the Obama administration releases to the public every three months.

The briefing that Broadwell attended does not appear in the publicly released logs because the White House withheld it for national security reasons. The meeting with the national security staffer also does not appear. It pre-dated the White House decision to release visitor logs publicly.

This post has been updated with information about the Broadwell visits.